The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-10-26
CURRENT NOTES.

Mr.. James Russell Lowell has relet his
Bull, and will remain abroad ali winter.
Miss Lottie Sterling, of Maryville, Tenn,
has been engaged as principal OF the womans
department OF the government school in
Japan. 80
Mrs. George Gould recently cut up a s1o.-
600 point d'Alencon flonnce that once be-
longed to the Empress Eugene to rim
new dress for her baby.
Mrs Joseph Keppier, wife of the Puck ar
fist, has diamond brooch set with large
stones splch reyolve for eight hours. 1t is
wound up like watch. and the effect is daZ-
zling.
Lady Houghton has just died Of scarlet
fever. She was granddaughter of the late
Dnches of Somerset, who, born Sheridan,
WAS, when Lady Seymour. so famous as the
Queen Of Beauty" at the Eglinton Tourna-
ment.
A Mrs. Martin. of Atlanta, has sold her
ten-year-ola son to Joseph B'B Ms, OF Chicago.
for 5000 Burns was discarded sutton of
Mrs. Martin dozen years ago, and now rich
and childless he purchases the boy and will
adopt him.
Robert Louis Stevenson has been deluged
with offers from publishers Ut late. One
New York firm offered him Sis, 900 for a
story of $4,000 words. and q newspaper
100 week for regular article for the Sun
day edition.
The young English pianiste, Pauline Ell
lice, now eleven years Of age, will be heard
i'll Berlin. Her programme has such works
as the G minor Concerto by Beethoven, the
T. major Poionaise by Meber-Liszt and sey-
eral numbers Of Bach's
Reuben B. Thrull is said to be the Oldest
prac icing lawyer i'll the world. He lives at
Rutland, Vt. is .ninety-three years old and
has Just been attending the session of the
Rutland County Court, looking after some
old cascs on the calendar.
~ Ro,,,,1,o l,oc ;,,ot yDroH, N =, nx,or
n Jus amount Of real estate in Bridgeport
Conn.,, on which five churches, the old court
house, six livery stables, three bank build.
ings, all the stores on the, west side of Main
residences and dwellings, are located. The
property is worth over Sc, 900, coo.
The State of Virginia is the posseshor of
two Of perhaps the Oldest printed volumes
in the world. They are in the State library.
and were printed when the art of printing
was but few years oll, and YIN. Caxton
volumes is a. book on natural history, and the
illuminated letters would do credit to much
modern printing. The other is an illustrated
dissertation ON the creation OF tho world and
the human raoe. .,s,. ~. sci 90
Prof. Henry D,unnond, of the University
of Edinburgh, who is visiting this county
rs delegate from the university 10 inquire
into the methods of Christian work in the
colleges here, said in lecture in. New York
thai ltiiin few wears much Christian work
had been done among the students of Edin-
burgh. Tho method adopted there YVES to
show the students TINT they should be re-
ligious men, not religious old women, and
thai religion does not consist Of cant, sane
timony, or the ability to repeat scriptural
phrases.
A New York physician says half the cases Of
so-callcd heart disease are only indigestion.
and more men are scared to death than die
any. other way. Dyspepsia causes pain in
the breast and makes the heart beat rapidly.
The physician advises sufferers to give, up
tea, coffee, tobacco, beer and whisky-if they
are users Of these thing.--sat brown bread
and plenty of good meat. especially rare
roast beef. and let hot bread, cake, pudding
and pastry, severely alone. A powder of bis
muth and bicarbonate Of soda before each
meal, for a month, is recommended. That
self-'reatment, with abundance of exercise.
will effect a cure in nineteen cases out OF
twenty. - at -.
A, physician OF Philadelphia Is unable to
understand tue real reason for the unwritten
law which prohibits doctor To advertise. 1t
holds in no other profession. Lawyers, ac-
tors and clergynen advertise, while ''physi-
cians must be content with banging out their
| names on their window shntterand waiting
for patients. !" II must indeed distress the
rnle-observirg class. to see brother prac-
| tiGioneer break away from regulations, adj
| vertise his business and get rich. as il very
| often the case. The latter 10 scoiled at as a
| quack, but his advertising does not lessen
his skill and knowledge a whit. and he can
well afford rs Tau gh st his scoffers when he
4 has achieved success. 'l& ~
A st. Louis physician says: Every time !
see one of the new style of houses in the
course of erection | feel like telling the owner
| to take out the small windows and have more
light. l have entered my protest many
| time against small windows. Let there he
light is the warning Of every physician. 1t
ia absolutely necessary to health that house
be well lighted, and great deal OF the sick
rooms. 1t may be called refinement for a
woman to be pale and thin, but ii renderf
| her unfit to bear the burdens OF life and pow
erless to resist disease. A plant cannot grow
| in n dark place, and why should a human
| ern. houses, with their small windows and
| dark ropins, become unhealthy and puny
Style il TO blame for this evils. Every house
should have as much sunlight as possible.
One Of the most interesting sights | ever
saw in my life, says q. correspondent is the
| wood chute at the Hu,nestake mine. Tha
mine has a railroad twenty two miles long Il
| the pineries where fuel is Obtained, and the
road ends at the top of high hill Just above
4 tle mill. Here tRe wood is dumped into
chute made OF neayy logs lined with, iron
l Iie logs descend with tremendous velocity
aud on reaching the mouth Of the chute ieal
out into the air. pass over the mill snd IHni
come 25o feet from tbe foot of the bluff
For hours perfect stream OF logs passe
over the heads of the men ct work below. an,
to new conner il seems sufficiently danger
ous, but no accident ever occurred, and on
Rnon gets over the nervous feeling. FiY
Thousand cords OF wood are piled nt a tim
by the arrangement, which caves tens o
thousands OF dollars annually to the com
pany, disocsing of 80, G o cordsa yesr with
out any cost for piling.
| TIE New York ,f,cg;,7,;e,vfut Advertiser. Tall
the following; A lady residing at Fort LIE